Trade Deadline: February 6, 2025

Well, actually, I was responding to you directing a post specifically to me. I'm not hunting you down and quoting you and complaining about your posts, as much as a tire of the constant complaining over minutiae.

That you think this ^ shows how blind you are to any dissenting views, and also just how shortsighted your philosophy is.

As I think Ron Brewer told you, "OK."

 

You know a good litmus test for someone kool-aiding their own dogma and believing their own BS? It's when they specifically seek out people who disagree with their view to argue and try to confirm their bias.

 

Still awfully quiet. Heard one thing but it seems a longshot.

 

only trade I feel like needs to happen is Ant going, no offense to him just need to make it impossible for Billups to sit Scoot and Sharpe

 

I'd say Thybulle and Reath are the guys who get traded....I want Ant to get traded but not sure that's happening at the deadline.

 

I'm just trying to think how this whole idea would work now that we feel we have a pretty good core so we should just actively try to lose from here on out.

Aside from the message that would send to the fans that actually go to the games, are you benching everyone older than Shaedon? What do you do with Deni? Do you think having a half-dozen players that still aren't in the primes of their careers sitting out just on the off-chance the Blazers might win the lottery sitting out a season that they could be using toward another contract is going to fly well with them or other players that might come here?

What if, God forbid, the Blazers still win? Or what if we lose but we have the worst possible scenario in the lottery and end up picking sixth or seventh anyway?

It just seems there are a lot of potentially negative outcomes to actively tanking when you're getting decent. The Sixers have stars and a really good roster and still are stuck in purgatory. The Pelicans keep picking higher and getting worse. And, again, no one wants to be the Wizards.

 

Me personally I don’t think we should lose on purpose but I also dont like winning games with my future stars sitting. Scoot by all accounts out played Simmons last night. He was told to improve his turnovers, play more controlled, play better defense and he did all those things and then went back to the bench. Billups has preached all season that players earn their minutes but that’s not what’s happening.

are we showcasing players maybe although that seems ridiculous teams know what they get with Ant and Grant.

 

On the one hand the recent wins make our vets look better than if the team was losing.

On the other hand I can see Cronin/Kolde now want to see these vets stay here and try to make a run at the playin this season.

 

Are you talking about yourself again?

 

Mind blown let’s rush the process to only end up at bottom of draft in what’s considered one of the best drafts in recent history.

 

Dallas needs helping the back court, so I think Thybulle is a possibility.

 

We don’t have a star.

We have an amazing core but we don’t have a GUY yet. We don’t have a Dame. We have some guys who maybe could possibly be that guy, but nobody that I’m convinced is really a sure thing. Shaedon doesn’t seem to have the right mindset. Scoot to me is the spirit animal of the team, and Deni could be a fantastic number two…. But I don’t think we have a true star. This ship isn’t gonna make it out to sea without a star.

 

I hope you're wrong

 

Exactly why we need to tank because that star is in the top 5 of this draft

 

Oh God.

Who do they think we would replace in the top 10? We are also currently 5 games behind the 10th seed and would have to leap over SA and GS to just make a play in. This mindset is not one I support if our leadership is thinking this.

 

This isn't the Wemby draft, where there's a massive gulf between #1 and everything else. (If Cooper Flagg is as good as advertised, he'll be a poor man's Anthony Davis. And everybody's been shitting on the Mavs for taking that player back for pudgy Luka.) There will be a player taken in the top 5 who is worse than a second rounder. We're still going to be in the lottery, and even if we don't move up, we've a shot at a star.

 

Share your Venmo or that's empty talk.

(Of course, I've never used Venmo [I'm not a fucking Millennial], so I don't even know if you CAN share it.)